[LLVMdev] New 8bit micro controller back-end

[Guillaume Deroire]

I won't work at full time on this project and I fear the first week is used
to read documentations :)

The better way to have an idea is to start backend developement. I'll try to
work on this backend for a month and will see if I'm on the right way.

2009/11/24 Evan Cheng <evan.cheng at apple.com>

>
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:30 AM, David Greene wrote:
>
> > On Monday 23 November 2009 09:01, Anton Korobeynikov wrote:
> >> Hello
> >>
> >>> It is a RISC with around 60 instructions like a 80c51 instruction set
> >>> (without mul/div) and with Direct or indirect memory acces.
> >>
> >> My estimate is something like a man-week for a person, who knows what to
> do
> >> :)
> >
> > That's pretty optimistic, even for someone who knows what to do.
> >
> > The learning curve for TableGen is quite steep.  I would budget at least
> a
> > year for everything; learning TableGen, writing patterns, custom
> lowering,
> > testing, etc.
>
> 1 year is an eternity in LLVM year. ARM target was up and functional in
> about 2 months of time.
>
> Evan
>
> >
> > And that's for a relatively simple, orthogonal ISA.
> >
> > Of course this happens iteratively.  You learn a little TableGen (mostly
> by
> > looking at existing backends and asking lots of questions), write a few
> > patterns, learn a little more and so on.
> >
> >                                -Dave
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